Tuesday, March 22, 2016

Judicial Watch releases State Department documents that are DEVASTATING TO FORMER SECRETARY OF STATE HILLARY CLINTON

Two days after Benghazi attack, Libyan President sought meeting with former U.S. President Bill Clinton in connection with a Clinton Foundation event — that event was held before any meeting between Libyan President and Secretary of State Clinton to discuss the murder of the U.S. Ambassador and the Benghazi attacks

Connection made between Libyan President, Bill Clinton AND the Clinton Global Initiative — All of it cleared by HRC’s State Department Staff

Gives completely new meaning to Hillary’s line, “What difference does it make....” — Since it was mostly about the MONEY all along.....

According to a release by Judicial Watch today, two hundred seventy-six pages (276 pp.) of internal State Department documents revealed that “... [W]ithin two days of the deadly terrorist attack on Benghazi, Mohamed Yusuf al-Magariaf, the president of Libya’s National Congress, asked to participate in a Clinton Global Initiative function and ‘meet [former] President Clinton.’ The meeting between the Libyan president and Bill Clinton had not previously been disclosed. The documents also show Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s staff coordinated with the Clinton Foundation’s staff to have her thank Clinton Global Initiative project sponsors for their ‘commitments’ during a Foundation speech on September 25, 2009....” (See “Judicial Watch: New Clinton Documents Raise Questions on Benghazi, Clinton Foundation” by Staff Writers, 3/22/16, Judicial Watch/ Press Room [http://www.judicialwatch.org/press-room/press-releases/judicial-watch-new-clinton-documents-raise-questions-on-benghazi-clinton-foundation/]).

WHAT THE STATE DEPARTMENT RECORDS SHOWED

On September 13, 2012 (less than a day after the attacks in Benghazi resulting in the deaths of four Americans, including the U.S, Ambassador), Libyan President al-Magariaf’s advisor Dr. Fathi Nuah wrote to the Clinton Foundation’s Director of Foreign Policy, Amitabh Desai, as follows: “Dr. Almagariaf will be addressing the United Nations this September in New York as the Libyan Head of State, and he expressed a wish to meet President Clinton and to participate at the Clinton Global Initiative meeting for New York as well.”

The Secretary of State’s Chief of Staff Mills E-mailed back to the representative of the Clinton Global Initiative: “We would not have issues.” (Remember — this was the very same day that the U.S. Ambassador had been murdered in President al-Magariaf’s country).

Four days later, on September 17th 2012, Desai emailed Mills again, telling Secretary Clinton’s Chief of Staff that the Libyan president was “... asking for a meeting with WJC [William Jefferson Clinton] next week.” The Clinton Global Initiative Representative Desai also specifically asked Mills, a State Department employee, “Would you recommend accepting or declining the WJC meeting request?” The State Department apparently had no objection to the meeting, because on September 26th 2012, CGI Rep Desai E-mailed Mills, “He had a v good meeting with Libya …”

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Libyan President al-Magariaf did not have a meeting to discuss Benghazi until September 24th 2012, after the CGI event.....

OTHER CLINTON FOUNDATION FUND RAISING EVENTS

The documents released by Judicial Watch also contained an August 2009 E-mail chain, which included E-mails from Hillary Clinton’s top staffer Huma Abedin, Cheryl Mills and HRC’s Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy Jake Sullivan, that showed HRC’s State Department staff coordinated with Clinton Foundation staff as to how Secretary of State Clinton would thank Foundation supporters/partners for their “commitments” to the foundation. Mills went so far as to ask Foundation Representative Desai for a “list of commitments during whole session so [Secretary Clinton] can reference more than those [occurring] just around her speech.”

WHY THIS IS IMPORTANT

According to the folks at Judicial Watch, this documentation is significant for the following reasons: “.... These new State Department documents show Hillary Clinton and her State aides were involved in fundraising for the Clinton Foundation. It is also incredible that the Libyan president would call and meet Bill Clinton through the Clinton Foundation before meeting Hillary Clinton about Benghazi..... ‘Secretary of State Hillary Clinton worked hand in glove with the Clinton Foundation on fundraising and foreign policy. Despite the law and her promises to the contrary, Hillary Clinton turned the State Department into the DC office of the Clinton Foundation.’... Judicial Watch’s FOIA lawsuit has become particularly noteworthy because it has been reported that the Clinton Foundation, now known as the Bill, Hillary, & Chelsea Clinton Foundation, accepted millions of dollars from at least seven foreign governments while Mrs. Clinton served as Secretary of State. The Clinton Foundation has acknowledged that a $500,000 donation it received from the government of Algeria while Mrs. Clinton served as Secretary of State violated a 2008 ethics agreement between the foundation and the Obama administration. Some of the foreign governments that have made donations to the Clinton Foundation include Algeria, Kuwait, Qatar, and Oman, have questionable human rights records.”

UPDATE: THE “HILLARY CLINTON’S E-MAILS PROBLEMS BEGAN IN 2009 & THEY AREN’T GOING TO BE OVER BEFORE THE 2016 ELECTIONS” EDITION

MORE DETAILS EMERGE FROM DISCLOSURES TO "JUDICIAL WATCH" OF HRC'S E-MAILS

SECURITY CONCERNS WERE OBVIOUS TO HILLARY AT THE BEGINNING — NEITHER SHE NOR HER STAFF SEEMED TO CARE — AND NOW 147 FBI AGENTS ARE LOOKING FOR CRIMES — WASHINGTON POST

According to a lengthy and detailed report late yesterday in the “Washington Post” by Robert O’Harrow Jr., “Hillary Clinton’s email problems began in her first days as secretary of state. She insisted on using her personal BlackBerry for all her email communications, but she wasn’t allowed to take the device into her seventh-floor suite of offices, a secure space known as Mahogany Row.... For Clinton, this was frustrating. As a political heavyweight and chief of the nation’s diplomatic corps, she needed to manage a torrent of email to stay connected to colleagues, friends and supporters. She hated having to put her BlackBerry into a lockbox before going into her own office.... Her aides and senior officials pushed to find a way to enable her to use the device in the secure area. But their efforts unsettled the diplomatic security bureau, which was worried that foreign intelligence services could hack her BlackBerry and transform it into a listening device....”(See “How Clinton’s email scandal took root” by Robert O'Harrow Jr., 3/27/16, The Washington Post/ Investigations [www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/how-clintons-email-scandal-took-root/2016/03/27/ee301168-e162-11e5-846c-10191d1fc4ec_story.html]).

That article went on to give these details: “.... On Feb. 17, 2009, less than a month into Clinton’s tenure, the issue came to a head. Department security, intelligence and technology specialists, along with five officials from the National Security Agency, gathered in a Mahogany Row conference room. They explained the risks to Cheryl Mills, Clinton’s chief of staff, while also seeking ‘mitigation options’ that would accommodate Clinton’s wishes.... ‘The issue here is one of personal comfort,’ one of the participants in that meeting, Donald Reid, the department’s senior coordinator for security infrastructure, wrote afterward in an email that described Clinton’s inner circle of advisers as ‘dedicated [BlackBerry] addicts.’... Clinton used her BlackBerry as the group continued looking for a solution. But unknown to diplomatic security and technology officials at the department, there was another looming communications vulnerability: Clinton’s BlackBerry was digitally tethered to a private email server in the basement of her family home, some 260 miles to the north in Chappaqua, N.Y., documents and interviews show.... Those officials took no steps to protect the server against intruders and spies, because they apparently were not told about it....”

THE FBI IS LOOKING FOR CRIMESThe O’Harrow-Washington Post report says, “.... The FBI is now trying to determine whether a crime was committed in the handling of that classified material. It is also examining whether the server was hacked.... One hundred forty-seven FBI agents have been deployed to run down leads, according to a lawmaker briefed by FBI Director James B. Comey. The FBI has accelerated the investigation because officials want to avoid the possibility of announcing any action too close to the election.... The Washington Post reviewed hundreds of documents and interviewed more than a dozen knowledgeable government officials to understand the decisions and the implications of Clinton’s actions. The resulting scandal revolves around questions about classified information, the preservation of government records and the security of her email communication....”

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